Tuesday. 5.20 a.m. A reluctant Alfie came out with me for our early morning jaunt around Oldbrook Green. It was worth it, if just to see a really amazing cloud formation over the centre of Milton Keynes, straight out of a J.M.W. Turner painting, who just happens to be one of my favourite artists. Anyway, I di around 1800 steps, as measured by my FitBit, which tells me, via the app, which is on my iPad and iPhone, that I do on average around 40,000 steps per week, which is approximately 30 miles, which can't be bad. I have worked out my B.M.I. (Body Mass Index), which is 29.6, which suggests that I am somewhat overweight. I put the blame on the so-called pandemic, being shut up like a prisoner for approximately two years, and eating stuff which I shouldn't have, for example, cake and biscuits. Definitely one of the minuses of such an event.
4.40 p.m. Another really great day at Camphill, in the performing arts workshop.
A longer than usual check-in. It took around an hour. Some people can spend around ten minutes discussing what they've been doing. I think there should be something like an egg timer, so people keep to a set length of time when they are talking.
A warming up session, to get the day started, but barely enough time before it was tea break. You can't possibly NOT have a tea break! Some of the group would be mortified if they were told they couldn't have a tea break, but no tea bags! Disasterville! So, someone goes off to find some.
Back to work, having to set up the green screen for our 'pirates' 'video. Terrie had managed to hang the main cloth on one of the bars on stage, which are usually there to suspend bits of scenery, curtains (technically called 'tabs', short for 'tableau.') Also, we have to put a green cloth on the stage floor. This is done so that backgrounds in scenes for the video can be edited into the footage to give the illusion of such things as being on a beach, in a shop or another place, without actually being there.
A great deal of hanging around, waiting to sort out costumes, some of the actors have makeup applied and our leading lady was involved in the 'western' video, which was being shot elsewhere, on location somewhere in Milton Keynes. We did manage to do some filming on the stage, the fight between the two pirate gangs. This means that, with only a small amount of footage needed, our video will be finished, apart from the editing.
Meanwhile . . . The 'time travel' video, which was the original video I was working on and was supposed to have a part . . . It was being edited in another part of the theatre. It appears that they have the first third of their video editing.
So, things are going really well. Hopefully next week we will get to see the completed videos!
Thursday. 7.10 a.m. I have currently got an unpleasant cough, which includes really unpleasant phlegm at the back of my throat. It kept me awake most of the night and nothing seems to shift it, although sucking on a Ricola sweet relieved it somewhat.
1.20 p.m. I was shaving early this morning and looking at myself in the mirror and thought, 'Your hair looks as if it could do with cutting!' which prompted me to go online to Central Barbers and book an appointment for 10.30 a.m., so that is exactly what I did, and it was done, and I feel a good deal better for it. I took a couple of Paracetamol tablets before I drove into the centre and I think they did the trick. I had been feeling lousy, what with the cough and a slight flu sort of feeling.
4.15 p.m.I am still feeling fluey. I have taken two more Paracetamol and have just done a COVID-19 test. It has come out positive, so I think I will need to isolate for five days.
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